I took that as a compliment.Ben was a grad student at the U. The party was lively and I guess I was spending a lot of time with Bruce and Emily as I t...ied to host things because Ben seemed to be spending all his time with Lily. She caught my eye and gave me a pleading look. I hustled over there with Emily in my arms.“Look here, Emily. Ben hasn’t held you yet. Did you show Ben your Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse?” I asked as I pushed my daughter into his arms. “Ben, do me a quick favor for a couple. Jay felt a little weird getting attracted to this slightly brown eleven-year-old, but he couldn’t blame himself. She was very mature for her age. She had back-length black hair, deep brown eyes, was just about as tall as he was, being about 5’5”, with a nice body devoid of fat from playing softball, and a very mature rack for her age, almost coming to a C-cup. She smiled at him as he looked taken aback by her beauty standing in the doorway in a semi-see-through white nightgown. He could clearly. That one looked like two people hugging, or dancing. Making love? No, it didn’t really look like that, well not much.Not for the first time the little girl wondered what it would really feel like to make love. She was too little for that right now, of course; sex was for grown-ups or teenagers. She wasn’t in any hurry, but she did think about it. She knew she could be satisfied for the next five, six, maybe seven years hugging and kissing.But she wasn’t satisfied not having Paul around. Maybe. "Because we ask that which must be agreed by a free soul."My stomach churned, but I squared my shoulders. "Does this have to dowith Lilly and ...me suffering her fate? If so, I'm ready." You may suffer her fate; we all may, who can say," Neasa answered."Listen to a wonder - on Midsummer Eve, when the sun's rays turn fromyellow to pink, a single leaf of the Panax herb can be transformed intoPanacea."Panacea? I knew plenty about herbs now, and I'd never heard of it."Panax is a nasty weed. I'd.